e-commerce

17 statements across 10 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Feb 17, 2021 by Mike Dragan · across every show →

Everything said about e-commerce, oldest first

Feb 17, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dragan: GANs will enable virtual try-ons superior to physical shopping
“In the future, given this these new types of generative adversarial networks, you're gonna be able to see yourself wearing Anything, having any kind of hairstyle, and it's gonna look realistic and in real, real life. So you, you're actually gonna try on stuff …”
Mike Dragan Feb 17, 2021 ▶ 39:32 The Hidden 95%: Why the EU Is Still an Untapped Market
Apr 5, 2023
Assertion Supported
Rakshit: 70% to 75% of e-commerce shoppers drop off before checkout
“Essentially after you've added products to your cart on an e-commerce website, till the time you have bought it, we saw that around 70, 75% people used to drop off”
Ishan Rakshit Apr 5, 2023 ▶ 1:21 He Joined VC With No Plan to Stay - Here Is What He Was Really After
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Insight
Weisbrot: E-commerce is much easier than software due to faster validation
“I think e-commerce is so much easier than software. Cause you don't have to code something for six months and then, you know, see if people want to try it.”
Sean Weisbrot Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 19:35 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Opinion
Weisbrot: E-commerce brands can reach $10M in sales within a year easily
“The thing that's great about e-commerce brands is you can launch an e-commerce brand and within six months do a million dollars in sales. And you can grow it to ten million dollars in sales within a year pretty easily.”
Sean Weisbrot Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 19:07 Show You Care and Let the Market Teach You
Apr 30, 2024
Insight
Bramlett: Master your niche and achieve team autonomy before pivoting
“Don't chase shiny objects. Just because you figured out how to sell things online doesn't mean you should pivot to a whole different niche. Get really good at what you do. Get to the point where you don't have to work. Your team does it for you before you deci…”
Cody Bramlett Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 1:01:40 From $0 to Half a Million in 30 Days Without Running a Single Ad
Aug 8, 2024 positive
Insight
Todd: Traditional Mentors Offer Value Even Without Tech Expertise
“Ok, let's not confuse the fact that a person doesn't understand the intricacies of e-commerce with the person, with the fact that that person doesn't understand how to grow a business, because you can learn e-commerce. Working with distributed teams, growing a…”
Jason Todd Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 19:40 He Built a $100M Company and Says You Are Already Wrong Right Now
Aug 8, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Todd: HVAC e-commerce business did around $100M in revenue prior to 2011 sale
“The e-commerce company, by the time I had sold it, we had done probably a hundred million through that organization.”
Jason Todd Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 2:35 He Built a $100M Company and Says You Are Already Wrong Right Now
Aug 8, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Todd: Company was first to sell residential and commercial HVAC online D2C
“We were the first to sell residential and light commercial heating and air conditioning equipment online direct to consumer, which broke open an industry and capitalized on the wave of e-commerce prior to many people even knowing that e-commerce was a thing.”
Jason Todd Aug 8, 2024 ▶ 1:36 He Built a $100M Company and Says You Are Already Wrong Right Now
Apr 1, 2025 negative
Insight
King: Administrative friction destroys unit economics on five-dollar physical e-commerce orders
“The administration for e-commerce is just Absolutely crazy, and that's where a lot of my e-commerce ventures have gone to die, but everything coming together, it was one of those ideas that if it worked, And we started a new trend and don't get me wrong. We…”
Ed King Apr 1, 2025 ▶ 6:37 Rich People Are the Best Evangelists in the World - Here Is Why
Apr 1, 2025 negative
Insight
King: Never launch e-commerce without manually pitching 200 potential direct buyers
“And I say, if you can't ring up 200 people and get them either interested in buying your product directly or know someone who would like that product, then you shouldn't get into it. You shouldn't begin.”
Ed King Apr 1, 2025 ▶ 30:28 Rich People Are the Best Evangelists in the World - Here Is Why
Apr 1, 2025 bullish
Insight
King: The biggest e-commerce margins exist in support and financing infrastructure
“So if you can be in the support layer, the administration, the financing layer of e-commerce, well, there's a pretty penny to be made there.”
Ed King Apr 1, 2025 ▶ 18:51 Rich People Are the Best Evangelists in the World - Here Is Why
Apr 1, 2025 neutral
Insight
King: Healthy e-commerce brands use cheap bank debt, starving private lenders
“Now you look at it and the healthier they are, the less they're going to need your money. So now you're competing against other forms of finance and banks. So that's where things get really tough is quality deal flow.”
Ed King Apr 1, 2025 ▶ 19:35 Rich People Are the Best Evangelists in the World - Here Is Why
Apr 29, 2025 neutral
Insight
Saleem Renoui: E-commerce brands should keep operating expenses below 8%
“I mean, e-commerce, you should be sub eight percent at all times”
Saleem Renoui Apr 29, 2025 ▶ 20:54 Picking the Hardest Business Model on Earth Has a Backdoor Exit
Jul 25, 2025 positive
Insight
Weldon: Email remains the killer communication channel for B2B and e-commerce
“We just have learned in business to business or in e-commerce, especially those two, email is still the killer communication channel, full stop.”
Jim Weldon Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 10:36 He Named His Agents and Gave One a Team of Five
Feb 3, 2026 positive
Insight
Putra: Almost All Successful Modern E-Commerce Brands Are Omnichannel
“Most of the time, at least at this point, anybody that's succeeding is typically doing CPG sales anyway. But CPG strictly would be, you know, consumer packaged goods through retail, like in-store environment, and then they would say e-com is the other side of …”
Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 1:04 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem
Apr 3, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simhi: Major Industry Players Replaced 'E-Commerce' with 'Commerce'
“If you will look at like all the big players in this field, you will see that in their websites, they changed their jargon and now it's called commerce and not e-commerce anymore.”
Meir Simhi Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 25:58 He Said 'What to Sell' Is Not Even the Right Question
Apr 3, 2026 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Simhi: Most of Apple's Sales Come from E-Commerce and Its Website
“And even Apple, which is innovation company, but it's still e-commerce company and most of their sales are coming from their e-commerce, from their website and from their e-commerce activities.”
Meir Simhi Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 24:07 He Said 'What to Sell' Is Not Even the Right Question
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